Word: sheaffer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...kind of image that newer conglomerates covet. Miller picked up two more companies last year ?Talon zippers and Fafnir bearings?but Textron seems less interested in acquiring new branches than in managing and expanding the many that it already has. Its 33 diverse divisions turn out Bell helicopters, Sheaffer pens, Speidel watchbands, Gorham silverware, Bostitch staplers and some 70 other products. Last year the company earned $74 million on sales of $1.7 billion?both records...
...NEILL: SON AND PLAYWRIGHT, by Louis Sheaffer. In the first of two volumes, Author Sheaffer examines the emotional factors in the playwright's family history that drove him to write his great sprawling tragedies...
...NEILL: SON AND PLAYWRIGHT, by Louis Sheaffer. O'Neill did what only a major artist can do: he made his public share his private demon. In this painstaking biography, the first of two volumes, Author Sheaffer traces the tensions that defined the playwright's life...
...NEILL: SON AND PLAYWRIGHT, by Louis Sheaffer. O'Neill did what only a major artist can do: make his public share his private demon. In this painstaking biography, the first of two volumes, Author Sheaffer traces the tensions that defined the playwright's life...
Writing-like the sea-may have given O'Neill a vacation from the kind of dry-land actuality he hated. But by 1920, where Sheaffer ends the first volume, both O'Neill and the American theater were about to come of age, and it had become obvious that the make-believe of drama was where O'Neill most truly engaged life. "Resentful against God, resentful against family, resentful, resentful," as a Harvard classmate described him, he crossed in the right direction the thin line that separates self-pity from pity and hate from love, making a tentative...